Pool Care
Pool-care know-how and equipment guides from the ProTuff team.
Zone by Zone: Troubleshooting In-Floor Cleaning Valve Failures on Caretaker and A&A QuikClean
In-floor cleaning repair is almost always a pressure problem, a debris problem, or an alignment problem.
Maintaining Your Chemical Sensors: A Guide to Probe Calibration and Care
A chemical controller is only as honest as the probe feeding it. When the sensor drifts, the system doesn't hesitate or second-guess — it keeps dosing...
Why Is My Suction Cleaner Sluggish? Checking Shoes, Wings, and Flaps
A suction pool cleaner that crawls where it used to climb is one of the most common calls a pool pro gets — and one of the most misdiagnosed.
Beating the Pressure: Heat Pump Flow and Pressure Error Codes on Hayward HeatPro, Jandy JE, and Zodiac Z400iQ
Your pool heat pump was warming the water just fine last week, and now the display is flashing a cryptic code and the compressor won’t run.
Pool Heater Short Cycling: Why It Fires and Shuts Off After 2 Minutes (and How to Stop It)
This is one of the most common pool heater complaints — and one of the easiest to misdiagnose.
Programming Summer Filtration Schedules: Walkthroughs for IntelliCenter, OmniLogic, and iAquaLink
This guide walks you through programming a summer filtration schedule on the three most common residential automation hubs — Pentair IntelliCenter...
Pool Heater Flow Error Codes: Diagnosing LO, PS, and CHECK FLOW on Hayward, Pentair, and Jandy
Ninety percent of all pool heater service calls trace back to a single root cause: not enough water flowing through the heater.
Thermal Regulator Valve Inspection: The Hidden Warning Sign in Your Pool Heater
The Thermal Regulator Valve (TRV), also called the Unitherm Governor on Pentair and Raypak models, is one of the most overlooked diagnostic tools in pool...
Pool Automation Troubleshooting: Fixing ‘No Comm’ Errors on OmniLogic, IntelliCenter, and iAquaLink
Before you dig into brand-specific diagnostics, run through these three checks. In roughly 80% of pool automation communication error fix cases, the...
Post-Winter Freeze Damage: How to Find and Fix Pool Equipment Leaks
Pool heaters are the first pieces of equipment to crack from freeze damage because even a small amount of trapped water in the header (manifold) assembly...
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